hey hey @mradermacher - VB from Hugging Face here, we'd love to onboard you over to our optimised xet backend! š„
as you know we're in the process of upgrading our storage backend to xet (which helps us scale and offer blazingly fast upload/ download speeds too): https://huggingface.co/blog/xet-on-the-hub and now that we are certain that the backend can scale with even big models like Llama 4/ Qwen 3 - we;re moving to the next phase of inviting impactful orgs and users on the hub over as you are a big part of the open source ML community - we would love to onboard you next and create some excitement about it in the community too!
in terms of actual steps - it should be as simple as one of the org admins to join hf.co/join/xet - we'll take care of the rest.
SmolVLM-2 and SigLIP-2 are now part of transformers in dedicated releases!
They're added on top of the v4.49.0 release, and can be installed from the following tags: v4.49.0-SmolVLM-2 and v4.49.0-SigLIP-2.
This marks a new beginning for the release process of transformers. For the past five years, we've been doing monthly releases featuring many models (v4.49.0, the latest release, features 9 new architectures).
Starting with SmolVLM-2 & SigLIP2, we'll now additionally release tags supporting new models on a stable branch. These models are therefore directly available for use by installing from the tag itself. These tags will continue to be updated with fixes applied to these models.
Going forward, continue expecting software releases following semantic versioning: v4.50.0 will have ~10 new architectures compared to v4.49.0, as well as a myriad of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Accompanying these software releases, we'll release tags offering brand new models as fast as possible, to make them accessible to all immediately.
Llava o1 - vlm capable of spontaneous, systematic reasoning, similar to GPT-o1, 11B model outperforms gemini-1.5-pro, gpt-4o-mini, and llama-3.2-90B-vision Xkev/Llama-3.2V-11B-cot
Jina AI Jina CLIP v2 - general purpose multilingual and multimodal (text & image) embedding model, 900M params, 512 x 512 resolution, matroyoshka representations (1024 to 64) jinaai/jina-clip-v2
Athene v2 Chat & Agent by NexusFlow - SoTA general LLM fine-tuned from Qwen 2.5 72B excels at Chat + Function Calling/ JSON/ Agents Nexusflow/athene-v2-6735b85e505981a794fb02cc
Orca Agent Instruct by Microsoft - 1 million instruct pairs covering text editing, creative writing, coding, reading comprehension, etc - permissively licensed microsoft/orca-agentinstruct-1M-v1
Smol TTS models are here! OuteTTS-0.1-350M - Zero shot voice cloning, built on LLaMa architecture, CC-BY license! š„
> Pure language modeling approach to TTS > Zero-shot voice cloning > LLaMa architecture w/ Audio tokens (WavTokenizer) > BONUS: Works on-device w/ llama.cpp ā”
Three-step approach to TTS:
> Audio tokenization using WavTokenizer (75 tok per second) > CTC forced alignment for word-to-audio token mapping > Structured prompt creation w/ transcription, duration, audio tokens
The model is extremely impressive for 350M parameters! Kudos to the OuteAI team on such a brilliant feat - I'd love to see this be applied on larger data and smarter backbones like SmolLM š¤